Celebrating Etheldreda - Under The Sun 2 music festival and a special performance of Arrival

Today, June 22nd, we’re joining Hexham Abbey and the people of Hexham to celebrate the memory of Etheldreda with the Under the Sun music festival and an evening performance of Arrival, a specially developed work of movement and song about the experience of migration and finding a new home.Etheldreda was an East Anglian Princess who was forcibly married to Ecgfrith, Prince of Northumbria. He became king in 670 but they divorced and, in 672, Etheldreda gave the lands we now know as Hexhamshire to Wilfred, Bishop of Northumbria, who founded the Abbey in 674.The Under the Sun festival was held in the Abbey cloisters and was organised by Penny Grennan and the Queens Hall Arts Centre, Hexham. The musicians you will hear are: The Storytellers Street Band, Fiddolin, The Platform House Band, The Hex Pistols and Blue Lass. You can find the Storytellers Street Band, the Hex Pistols and Blue Lass on Facebook. Fiddolin’s music is on Soundcloud. The Platform House Band perform regularly at the Platform Bar on Hexham’s railway station. The Arrival performance was part of the Seeds of Hope programme, a collaboration between Theatres San Frontieres (https://tsf.org.uk/) and actors and musicians from Northumberland and Ukraine.Follow 3tynespodcast on Facebook and Instagram. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 3tynespodcast.substack.com